’Season 8, Episode 1 // Amplifying Insights: Announcing a Season of Student Voices’

• Theresa gives an introduction to the 2024 Isom Student Gender Conference with the theme Intersections of Inequality. Mississippi’s longest continuously running student conference, it will take place March 20-22 on campus, featuring the work of undergraduate and graduate students and offering opportunities to engage and converse.
• Jaime announces the Conference’s keynote speaker, Dr. Alex Ketchum, who will present on how gender and sexuality research circulates in public forums on Thursday, March 21 at 4 PM. Visit Dr. Ketchum’s website to read her full bio!
• Our hosts preview two of the student podcasts soon to appear in the Swerve South feed! Get ready for Sophia Purvis’s exploration of 90s gender and sexuality through a podcast episode on Sex and the City, and an episode on the culture surrounding roller skating by Jaleah Walker.